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    <title>Gullibility isn&apos;t in the dictionary</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Anti-theism, skepticism, laughing at quackery &amp; fraud]]></description>
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      <description>The Catholic Secular Forum protest Dan Brown&apos;s novel and the film based on The Da Vinci Code.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Is India the home of the world&#39;s silliest Catholics? Witness The Catholic Secular Forum protest plans over Dan Brown&#39;s novel:&#8220;It&#39;s to show the extent that our feelings have been hurt,&#8221; said the group&#39;s general secretary Joseph Dias, speaking of the...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Archbishop : Boycott The Da Vinci Code Movie</title>
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      <description>Archbishop Angelo Amato is the number two official in the Vatican&apos;s doctrinal purity office.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Archbishop Angelo Amato hasn&#39;t learned that denoucing something is simply giving it free advertising. Not that The Da Vinci Code needs any.Amato, addressing a Catholic conference in Rome, called the book &#8220;stridently anti-Christian .. full of calumnies, offences and historical...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Wanna Play Pope?</title>
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      <description>Papal card game from German toy company Kultquartett.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[German toymaker Kultquartett has a new papal card game including Benedict XVI. Players trump each other according to numbers of nakesakes, predecessors, years of service and distance from a Pope&#39;s birthplace to Rome. Designer of the papal trumps Christoph Engel,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Mrs. Jesus?</title>
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      <description>Mary Magdalene: was she Jesus Christ&apos;s wife?</description>
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      <title>Court Demands Proof that Jesus Lived</title>
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      <description>Atheist Luigi Cascioli sues Father Enrico Righi over proof of the historical existence of Jesus Christ.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Father Enrico Righi is being sued by Signor Luigi Cascioli because the former denounced the latter for saying that Jesus Christ is a myth. Signor Cascioli&#8217;s one-man campaign came to a head at a court hearing last April when he...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI on South Park</title>
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      <description>Bloody Mary episode of South Park features Holy Virgin statue menstruating.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is raising a fuss about a South Park episode entitled Bloody Mary.The episode revolves around a nearby town&#39;s discovery that a statue of the Virgin Mary has begun bleeding. The event is...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Virgin Mary &apos;s Condom</title>
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      <description>Steve Rosenthal&apos;s artwork showing the Holy Virgin Mother of God wearing a prophylactic.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The object is meant to draw attention to the Roman Catholic Church&#39;s lies about prophylactics. &#8230; Steve Rosenthal, offered readers a chance to buy a &#8220;a stunning 22cm statue of the Virgin Mary standing atop a serpent, wearing a delicate...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI&apos;s Retro Fashions</title>
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      <description>Medieval morality, theology and fashions.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Even his clothing is medieval:Vatican officials said the hat, known as a camauro, has been part of the papal wardrobe since the 12th century. &#8230; He is reported to favour medieval-style red slippers over more practical shoes while padding around...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>John Paul II a Saint?</title>
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      <description>Roman Catholic theologians opposes beatification and canonization of late pope.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pope Benny is in a mad hurry to have Pope John Paul II declared a saint. Ford pardoned Nixon. Some Roman Catholic theologians find him a doubtful candidate given the financial and pedophilia scandals of his quarter-century of theological tightness....]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-12-07T18:42:37-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Daniela Mercury vs. the Vatican</title>
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      <description>Roman Catholic clergy abuse pop singer for supporting use of condoms to fight AIDS.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Brazil has become the largest Roman Catholic nation. And Daniela Mercury is one of Brazil&#39;s best known pop stars. She was to perform at an annual charity broadcast at the Vatican. Until the clerics discovered the singer things condoms better...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-12-05T18:50:48-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Do Unbaptized Babies Go to Hell?</title>
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      <description>Plato, Moses, Abraham and babies removed from Limbo but sent to ... ?</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Roman Catholic theologians are meeting to admit that limbo an invention doesn&#39;t exist. I guess that means that Plato, Moses and all those babies are in Hell. According to doctrine, they could not go to heaven because their original sin...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-11-30T17:57:03-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI : Why Does He Hate Gay People So Much?</title>
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      <description>Is the former Cardinal Ratizinger the Roman Catholic church&apos;s biggest closet homosexual himself?</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI has had strong anti-gay feelings for decades. He&#39;s been more of a homophobe than many other Roman Catholic prelates.As always when I find myself confronted by the words and feelings of someone who thinks my primary sexuality...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Homophobia</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-11-29T14:58:12-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Entertaining Opus Dei Trivia</title>
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      <description>Strange cultic practices of the Roman Catholic Church&apos;s enforcement division.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The best thing about reality is that it is too silly for you to be able to make it up. Take Opus Die: SUZANNE SMITH: The idea that the sexes must be segregated is enforced in most Opus Dei offices...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-11-28T18:15:35-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>What&apos;s Bugging Virgin Mary Now?</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/catholic/whats_bugging_virgin_mar.php</link>
      <description>Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs Church reports miraculous manifestation of mother of God crying tears of blood.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Holy Virgin Mary, Mother of God, etc. is on the move again. Her latest wacky act is at the Vietnamese Catholic Martyrs Church in Sacremento. That tears of blood act is always a crowd pleaser and she&#39;s packing them in.On...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-11-28T17:38:14-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Catholic Church: No Gay Culture</title>
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      <description>Most of the bishops are desperate for priests, and many of them are gay themselves.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Gay culture? Madonna? Queer eye for the literati? Congregation of Catholic Education is still working on the long-promised formal statement on gay people and the disallowal of queer clergy.The long-awaited document has not yet been released, but an Italian newspaper...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Homophobia</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-11-14T19:11:17-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Why Contraception is Immoral</title>
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      <description>Janet Smith, author of Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later and editor of Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Dr. Janet Smith, a Catholic moral theologian, explains the evils of contraception: Men are not as attracted to women who use contraception because they are infertile, Smith said. &#8220;A test was done with a group of men in a room...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Catholic Students Will Be Punished for Weblogs</title>
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      <description>Kieran McHugh of Pope John XIII Regional High School forbids students to have internet weblogs.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Any student at Pope John XIII Regional High School in Sparta, NJ will be suspended if he keeps a weblog. Kieran McHugh may offers a silly defence for forbidding students to have weblogs. More likely it is just a way...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Priestly Orgasm Denial Mandatory</title>
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      <description>Enforced mandatory chastity is Roman Catholic policy.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Enforced chastity is still mandatory for Roman Catholic clergy. The bishops described celibacy as an &#8220;inestimable gift&#8221; and declared that ordination of married men was &#8220;a path not to follow&#8221;Communion for divorcees who remarry also failsI wish that Fundagelical clergy...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Extraterrestrials Are Christians</title>
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      <description>Jesuit astronomer says aliens on other planets would believe in Jesus Christ.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Brother Guy Consolmagno thinks that any alien beings there might be would be Christian? But what would ET think of the Pope?To back up his hunch that the aliens will have been subject to Christ&#8217;s saving grace, he cites the...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Youth are Demon Possessed</title>
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      <description>Many priests are seeking training as exocists because young men and women are at risk.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Exorcisms are all the vogue in the 21st century Roman Catholic Church. And would you know it? The Devil is most anxious to posses young people. After all younger parishioners are more apt to snicker at old geezers going on...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Josemaria Escriva</title>
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      <description>How the founder of Opus Dei put himself in a closer relationship with Jesus Christ.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Opus Dei: Secrets and Power Inside the Catholic Church tells us how Josemaria Escriva, the founder of the Opus Dei got closer to God: &#8220;Soon,&#8221; the ailing disciple later recalled of what Escriva did on that occasion, &#8220;I began to...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Priests Who Don&apos;t Like Celibacy</title>
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      <description>Catholic clerical celibacy foolish, hurtful burden on church and priests.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Australian priests are ambitious: &#8220;We would like to see a goal set across the world that the church aims to have an ordained priest for every 50 Catholic families or 200 people,&#8221; the council said. Very ambitious:Over the past 25...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-10-04T14:35:09-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>De Exorcismus et supplicationibus quibusdam</title>
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      <description>Roman Catholic officials say that Satan understands Latin.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The last sentence is quite reassuring.The Vatican published an official document in October 1998. The document had an awe-inspiring title De Exorcismus et supplicationibus quibusdam (Concerning Exorcisms and Certain Supplications). The document stipulated rules and regulations applicable to exorcism. It...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Exorcist School</title>
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      <description>Vatican issued its first updated ritual for exorcism since 1614 and warned that the devil is still at work.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It only takes four months to learn how to cast out demons. A Vatican university announced last Thursday that for the second year running it will hold a course on exorcism and Satanism for Roman Catholic priests. The course starts...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-09-15T01:38:40-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Virgins for Jesus</title>
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      <description>American Catholic women who say Jesus Christ is their holy lover.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[American Roman Catholic women who pepetuate the evil and pointless cult of virginity. These women pursue a spiritual vocation, but not as members of a convent or religious order. They work as teachers, nurses, lawyers or, like Stegman, certified public...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Catholic</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2005-08-30T19:27:13-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>No Gay Priests!</title>
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      <description>Congregation for Catholic Education and Seminaries wants homosexual clergy stopped from attending seminary or taking orders.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A tergiversating document has been prepared by the Roman Catholic Church&#39;s Congregation for Catholic Education and Seminaries: The instruction tries to dampen down the controversy by eschewing a moral line, arguing instead that the presence of homosexuals in seminaries is...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI vs. Darwin</title>
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      <description>Roman Catholic pontiff takes stand against theory of evolution.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Scientist have written to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI asking him for clarification: In 1950, Pope Pius XII proclaimed there was no opposition between evolution and Catholic doctrine. In 1996, Pope John Paul II endorsed Pius&#39; statement. The reason some...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-08-28T09:19:53-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI on evolution</title>
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      <description>Is intelligent design to become Roman Catholic doctrine?</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[He said he had no problem with mainstream biologists conception of evolutionary theory. Then he said: Indeed, in the homily at his installation just a few weeks ago, Benedict proclaimed: &#8220;We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution....]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Genevieve Beney</title>
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      <description>Woman becomes Roman Catholic priest.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Genevieve Beney has declared herself a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. Even though I&#39;m an atheist I say more power to her. The ban on female clergy is nothing more than antiquated sexism. I wonder did she also take...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Go climb John Paul II Peak</title>
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      <description>Visited it many times to pray</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[They should spend more time up on those mountains and leave the rest of us alone. The late Pope told pilgrims that in the Bible, mountains &#8220;were considered a special place to meet God&#8221;. &#8230; &#8220;Mountains always exercised a strong...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2005-05-19T19:24:17-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Are your parents divorced? Then keep out!</title>
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      <description>School bans admission to sons and daughters of divorced parents.</description>
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      <description>Anglicans seek to align themselves with Marian dogmas</description>
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      <title>Imagine a Vatican condom factory</title>
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      <description>Pope Benedict XVI must see that the Vatican’s hostility to condoms is killing people.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8220;If I were pope, I would start a condom factory right in the Vatican,&#8221; one Brazilian priest told me. &#8220;What&#8217;s the point of sending food and medicine when we let people get infected with AIDS and die?&#8221; In his office,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Vatican Radio&apos;s Cardinal Roberto Tucci avoids jail</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Here come more millions in Vatican payouts. A Roman Catholic cardinal and a priest in charge of Vatican Radio have been convicted of polluting the atmosphere with powerful electromagnetic waves. &#8230; Two scientific studies have suggested a field of Vatican...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Visions of the Holy Virgin Mary spread like a plague of delusion. </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Having been raised in a mostly protestant, largely fundamentalist Baptist area it was a long time before I learned of the Virgin Mary&#39;s heavy schedule and novel means of manifesting herself. Rosa Diaz and Anna Reczek used a degreaser to...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Chicago Marian apparition – a tunnel wall salt stain – had graffiti written on it then it was painted over.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Victor Gonzalez has been arrested on supiscion of editing Chicago&#39;s tunnel wall Madonna. Local authorities covered the shape in brown paint, after it was defaced with the words &#8220;big lie&#8221;. &#39;Vision of the Virgin&#39; vandalised...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Respect Life Office hopes to stop Florida Judge from being allowed communion.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Judge Alvarez ruled that a young girl known only as L.G. was entitled to an abortion.Diocese of Palm Beach employee demands that the judge be refused Holy Communion.Don Kazimir, who works for the diocese&#39;s Respect Life Office, which opposes abortion...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI&apos;s car goes for $244,000</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/cheap_laughs/pope_benedict_xvis_car_g.php</link>
      <description>Golden Palace casino, of Austin in Texas buys odd and miraculous objects on eBay.</description>
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      <dc:subject>Cheap Laughs</dc:subject>
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      <title>Pope John Paul II trading cards</title>
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      <description>The market for John Paul collectibles heated up dramatically</description>
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      <title>Sieg Heil, Hail Mary!</title>
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      <description>Pope Benedict XVI accused of being antisemitic Nazi.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[While I&#39;ve certainly been getting my kicks out of Pope Benedict XVI it is childish to evoke the &#39;N&#39; word. &#39;What can you expect from a filthy Nazi?&#39; asked one blogger quoted, with horror, by National Review Online. &#39;They knock...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Roman Catholicism makes for chaste teenagers</title>
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      <description>Protestent girls and boys more likely to have had sex than Catholic teens. </description>
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      <description>Pope John Paul IIeuro coins grabbed up by speculators, unauthorized memorabilia condemned.</description>
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      <title>Peter the Roman due soon. End of world to follow.</title>
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      <description>Bible crackpots claim that Pope Benedict is the Pope prior to Peter the Roman predicted by St. Malachy as preceding Christ&apos;s return to judge the world.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[More excitement about St. Malarkey, er, St. Malachy&#39;s endtime prophecies and Pope Benedict XVI. Peter the Roman is supposed to be the final pope before the Last Judgement. Benedict, believers say, fits the description of the second-to-last pope listed under...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Marian apparitions just won’t stop</title>
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      <description>Holy Virgin Mary appears as a glint on a window, a cheese sandwich and a stain on a wall.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Holy Mary Mother of God don&#39;t you have anything better to do than appear all over the place and cause traffic jams. And why manifest yourself as a salt stain on a wall? Marian apparitions pop up so often that...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope jokes</title>
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      <description>Roman Catholic humor and joking about Pope Benedict XVI.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[From an essay on Catholic humor: Karl Rahner, Hans K&uuml;ng and Ratzinger all die on the same day, and go to meet St. Peter to find out their fates. St. Peter points at Rahner and says &#8220;Karl! In my office.&#8221;...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Jeb Bush prays harder</title>
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      <description>Catholic Jeb Bush violates the church&apos;s teaching against the death penalty by ordering executions.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[As Cardinal Ratzinger Pope Benedict XVI wanted John Kerry and other American politicians who support a woman&#39;s right to an abortion to be refused communion. How about Jeb Bush, a Catholic convert who has people put to death? &#8220;I get...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI: Antichrist or False Prophet?</title>
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      <description>Some rightwing fundamentalist protestants believe that Pope Benedict XVI is the Great Beast or his prophet from the book of Revelations and foretold by St. Malachy.</description>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI beats Harry Potter</title>
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      <description>Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI pushes Harry Potter book from top of bestseller list.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[And Dan Brown&#39;s The Da Vinci Code The writings of Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI Tuesday, went straight in at number one on Germany&#39;s book charts Wednesday, toppling the latest Harry Potter. The German version of online retailer...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Catholic</dc:subject>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI weblogs!</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/catholic/pope_benedict_xvi_weblogs.php</link>
      <description>Blogs devoted to Pope Benedict XVI and bloggers that criticize the new pontiff.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI is unsurprisingly a popular topic in weblogs these days (like this one). There are already a clutch of weblogs devoted to the new pontiff. Pick of the bunch is popebenedict16, edited by the Catholic writer Michael S...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope Benedict XVI: homophobic, anti-feminist, anti-sanity</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/catholic/pope_benedict_xvi_homoph.php</link>
      <description>Pope Benedict XVI hates gay men and women, condoms, women priests and the European Enlightenment. </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[It is like Frank Netti taking over from Al Capone. Joe &#8220;The Rat&#8221; Ratzinger has been called God&#39;s Rottweiler, the Panzer Cardinal, as well as the Enforcer. Intolerant? The British nun Lavinia Byrne left her religious order after refusing orders...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Europe steadily less Catholic</title>
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      <description>Even Pope Benedict XVI won&apos;t reverse the Roman Catholic Church&apos;s European decline.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[If only I&#39;d understood when I was young. I&#39;d have fled to Europe, most likely Holland. But the diminishing place of the Roman Catholic Church in the lives of Europeans is one of the reasons that the mostly conservative African...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Auto-erotic meditation</title>
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      <description>Pope Benedict XVI doesn&apos;t understand Hinduism</description>
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      <title>Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger becomes Pope Benedict XVI</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/catholic/cardinal_joseph_ratzinger.php</link>
      <description>Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, John Paul II&apos;s closest advisor, has been elected as  Pope Benedictus XVI.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[He was clad in a ready-to-wear set of robes prepared earlier by the papal tailors, and they seemed to fit quite well.Crowds welcome the new PopeDon&#39;t know about the power of the nun&#39;s prayers but maybe she could lead aerobics...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Clerical celibacy</title>
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      <description>Pope John Paul II demanded that Roman Catholic priests be celibate.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ If the family is the repository of morality, why must it be that Catholic priests are expressly forbidden from finding out what its joys and pains might be? More ancient Christian churches, as well as more recent ones, do...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope John Paul II&apos;s ex post facto miracles</title>
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      <description>Claims that Saint Pope John Paul II performed miracle healings and cures.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The movement began slowly. Shortly after the pope&#8217;s death, tearful worshipers began constructing impromptu shrines, decorated with notes, photographs, mementos, and tributes. Then the title, John Paul the Great, started appearing on hats and in descriptions of the pontiff. At...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Bring back the John Paul II busts they plead</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/christian_pop_culture/bring_back_the_john_paul_.php</link>
      <description>Busts of Pope John Paul II removed from restaurants.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[People want the darnest things. The Italian restaurant chain Buca di Beppo has removed plaster busts of Pope John Paul II from its private dining rooms out of respect for the deceased pontiff, sparking complaints from some customers.Some want pope...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Christian Pop Culture</dc:subject>
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      <title>Incredible Popeman</title>
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      <description>Pope John Paul II as a comic book superhero who joins Batman and Superman to fight the Devil.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Part of his costume is green chastity pants. Collectors take note there will also be Incredible Popeman action figures. The first episode of the &#8220;Incredible Popeman&#8221; is about to go on sale in Colombia and shows the late Polish pontiff...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope John Paul II&apos;s magic numbers</title>
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      <description>Gamblers make wagers based on numbers associated with the deceased Pope John Paul II.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[How about a book entitled 101 Uses for a Dead Pope? Grief or no grief, many Italian lottery addicts are looking to the late Pope John Paul for Across the Roman Catholic country, punters are rushing to lotto sellers and...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Did Pope John Paul II think he was infallible?</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/catholic/did_pope_john_paul_ii_thi.php</link>
      <description>Did Pope John Paul II enforce Pope Pius IV&apos;s foolish doctrine of papal infallibility and think himself infallible?</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[John Paul II has been almost the polar opposite of John XXIII, who dragged Catholicism to confront 20th-century realities after the regressive policies of Pius IX, who imposed the peculiar doctrine of papal infallibility on the First Vatican Council in...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>John Paul II kicks the bucket</title>
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      <description>John Paul II opposed gay marriage, female clergy, married priests and condoms. But he did protect child rapists who were priests.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[One Vicar of Christ dies, another takse his place. Amid all the pious bombast about John Paul II we can also recall his protection of Cardinal Bernard Law: A church that has allowed no latitude in its teachings on masturbation,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The most contradictory, pope of the 20th century</title>
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      <description>Hans Kung writes Pope John Paul II&apos;s errors, abuse of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and how he has driven many from the church with his totalitarian policies.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Hans Kung on Pope John Paul II:Even for many Catholics, this pope at the end of his physical strength, refusing to relinquish his power, is the symbol of a fraudulent church that has calcified and become senile behind its glittering...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>The Da Vinci Code as an industry</title>
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      <description>Everybody is getting angry and or rich from Dan Brown&apos;s novel about Jesus&apos; marriage.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said &#8220;You can find that book everywhere and the risk is that many people who read it believe that those fairy tales are real&#8221;. Could it be that the Cardinal and the Church are afraid that the...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>Pope makes yet another pernicious, foolish remark about same sex marriages</description>
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      <dc:subject>Homophobia</dc:subject>
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      <title>Bishops won&apos;t encourage Bible reading</title>
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      <description>Bishops in an attempt to cut expenses encourage people to not read the Bible.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[American Roman Catholic bishops possibly fearing creating another Martin Luther have decided to not encourage their flock to actually read the Bible.The Catholic Church has long emphasized that individual reading of Scripture is always subject to interpretation by the church,...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Win prizes at the shopping mall church</title>
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      <description>Priests tell shoppers about the latest bargains before mass.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Some Chilean Catholics are lucky enough to enjoy an exceptionally refined and purified form of religious faith. One that happily reconciles God and Mammon in a way even Jesus himself couldn&#39;t have anticipated.A Parque Arauco, Chile shopping mall has a...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Mass for pets</title>
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      <description>Father Wolfgang Kestermann offers the Eucharist to animals at Christ Resurrection church in Cologne </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Father Wolfgang Kestermann has started holding masses for pets in Germany. I guess some folks are afraid their cats and dogs might be going to Hell. The first service at the Christ Resurrection church in Cologne attracted more than 150...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Pope: deplores unrestrained secularism</title>
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      <description>Pope says people in New Zealand spend too much time with rugby, soccer and football.</description>
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      <title>Wine bibbing priests want chauffeurs</title>
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      <description>Croatian priests often drunk after communion services.</description>
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      <title>Pope: gay marriage violates God&apos;s plan for humanity</title>
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      <description>Roman Catholic Pope condemns gay marriages.</description>
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      <dc:subject>Homophobia</dc:subject>
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      <title>Virgin Mary here, there, everywhere</title>
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      <description>An investigation into the extraordinary phenomenon of Virgin Mary sightings around the world, the priests and scientists who investigate them</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[From a review of The Miracle Detective: An Investigation of Holy Visions. (The book was published on April 1st.) One clergyman asserts that most bishops would &#8220;rather have a child molester in their diocese than a weeping statue of the...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Reason and gay marriages</title>
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      <description>Catholic Pope says same-sex marriage is against right reason. He says that for all the wrong reasons.</description>
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      <dc:subject>Homophobia</dc:subject>
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      <title>Those decadent Southern gays</title>
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      <description>Roman Catholic Archbishop Alfred Hughes of the Archdiocese of New Orleans attacks gay celebration known as Southern Decadence.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Archbishop Alfred Hughes clearly has no idea why people go to New Orleans. The archbishop said that the exploitation of sexual activity, &#8220;both heterosexual and homosexual,&#8221; produces &#8220;tawdriness&#8221; that harms the public atmosphere. He added that &#8220;our city&#39;s image is...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>No body of Christ without gluten</title>
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      <description>Bishop John Smith of Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey declares that the Eucharist must include gluten or it is invalid.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Did you know that Roman Catholic canon law requires the communion wafer be made of wheat and must include gluten? A young woman&#39;s first communion was declared invalid because a gluten-free wafer was used. As if the Eucharist consists of...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Email your prayers to Lourdes</title>
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      <description>Company will place printouts of prayers in  grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes during the Pope&apos;s visit.</description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vatican on feminism &amp; gay people]]></title>
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      <description>Vatican says feminism encourages people to accept things like gay marriages.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Vatican&#39;s latest salvo a feminism: It says feminism&#39;s view of equality has inspired ideologies which &#8220;call into question the family, in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father, and to make homosexuality and heterosexuality virtually equivalent&#8221;.Vatican attacks radical feminism...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Gay marriage will destroy the economy</title>
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      <description>Spanish Catholic clergy say same-sex marriages would bring social and economic chaos.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Spain&#39;s Roman Catholic clergy on the dangers of same-sex marriages: Marriage must be based on the complementarity of the sexes and the capacity to procreate, the bishops added, warning that gay marriage would endanger &#39;&#39;the right social order&#39;&#39; and &#39;&#39;the...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Homophobia</dc:subject>
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      <title>New Catholic priest sex scandal</title>
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      <description>The Forum XXIII Catholic lobby for reform of the Austrian church demanded intervention by the Vatican.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Vienna news magazine Profil has published pictures of priests and students engaged in sexual acts, prompting an uproar, emergency meetings of the church leadership, and calls for Bishop Krenn&#39;s resignation. The pictures were said to be part of a...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Cardinal Ratzinger&apos;s Kerry communion memo</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/catholic/cardinal_ratzingers_kerr.php</link>
      <description>Cardinal Ratzinger&apos;s memo tells American bishops to refuse communion to John Kerry and other pro-abortion politicians.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Cardinal Ratzinger is the Pope&#39;s enforcer. The memo was sent to the US Catholic Bishops&#39; conference last month. With formidable clarity and force, it states that pro-abortion Catholic politicians should be warned by priests that they are not eligible for...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>John Kerry heretic</title>
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      <description>John Kerry heretic for receiving Holy Communion as a pro-choice Catholic.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Marc Balestrieri has filed heresy charges against John Kerry. The American Roman Catholics are getting as nutty as the fundagelicals. &#8220;Heresy is a public, ecclesiastical crime,&#8221; said Mr. Balestrieri, 33, whose complaint is posted at www.defide.com. &#8220;It affects entire communities....]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Catholic</dc:subject>
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      <title>Vatican vs Madonna, Esther</title>
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      <description>Kabbalah promoted by Madonna, was high on a list of New Age fads. </description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Vatican chiefs have branded Madonna&#39;a &#39;Kabbalah&#39; religion as a threat to Christianity. Pope brands Madonna&#39;s Kabbalah a threat to Christianity! The Catholic-born singer&#39;s public involvement with the Los Angeles-based Kabbala Center, accused by some of being a cult-like distortion of...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Cheap Laughs</dc:subject>
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      <title>Vatican: just a little torture, murder</title>
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      <description>Vatican research findings cannot excuse the work of the Inquisition that terrorized  thousands.</description>
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      <title>Monsignor Peter Fleetwood vs the new age</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/catholic/monsignor_peter_fleetwood.php</link>
      <description>Pope John Paul II&apos;s church is far less tolerant about practices and beliefs that differ with Catholic theology.</description>
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      <title>If you attack the Catholic Church, it’s like attacking Coke or Microsoft!</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/catholic/if_you_attack_the_catholi.php</link>
      <description>The Catholic Church is so irrational that it must remain as it is. If it starts to open up, it will collapse</description>
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      <title>Pope worries about US, elevates Law</title>
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      <description>Pope calls Americans materialistic, protects Cardinal Bernard Law from justice.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Heir of St. Peter frets about American spiritual poverty. Pope John Paul II warned several U.S. bishops Friday that American society is in danger of turning against spirituality in favor of materialistic desires, giving way to a &#8220;soulless vision...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Catholic</dc:subject>
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      <title>Bishop Ross Davies: sexist pig</title>
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      <description>Australian female bishops worse than homosexuals says Bishop</description>
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      <title>Political support of same-sex marriage is evil</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/homophobia/political_support_of_same.php</link>
      <description>Roman Catholic moral theology is often homophobic</description>
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      <dc:subject>Homophobia</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-05-25T10:54:29-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Crucified Christ: no communion for Kerry!</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/absurd_inurbane_witless/crucified_christ_no_comm.php</link>
      <description>American Life League attack Roman Catholic Church prelates who tolerate liberal democratic politicians</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I suspect these poor, ignorant American Catholics do really think that their dead carpenter hero would be damned angry if he saw John Kerry tasting communion wine. Who knew that the creator and maintainer of the cosmos might have such...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <title>Bishops vs. Catholic politicians</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/absurd_inurbane_witless/bishops_vs_catholic_poli.php</link>
      <description>Roman Catholic Bishops seek to force American politicians to condemn abortion by denying them holy communion</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The aging American Catholic bishops are planning to refuse Holy Communion to John Kerry, New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey and other politicians who don&#39;t work to make abortion illegal again. &#8220;The church has to offer a serious discussion of the...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <title>Vatican exorcsit #1</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/superstitious_folly/vatican_exorcsit_1.php</link>
      <description>Amorth performs the mysterious, ancient ritual dozens of times a week</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Proud boast of Father Gabriele Amorth, Vatican exorcist: &#8220;I&#39;ve never been afraid of the devil,&#8221; Amorth said. &#8220;In fact, I can say he is often scared of me.&#8221; University of Florence philosopher Sergio Moravia: &#8220;I don&#39;t think it&#39;s crazy. It&#39;s...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Superstitious Folly</dc:subject>
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      <title>Pope John Paul II indicated that Sen John Kerry and other Catholic politicians should be refused Communion</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/catholic/pope_john_paul_ii_indicat.php</link>
      <description>Roman Catholic Church considers forbidding pro-abortion politicians communion</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Crazy conservative Catholics like the American Life League are hoping they can control wicked liberal politicians like John Kerry. Last fall, a committee of bishops led by Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick began studying ways to respond to Catholic politicians whose...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>John Kerry&apos;s struggle with conservative Roman Catholic bishops</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Roman Catholic Church continues to march toward complete irrelevance. Former altar boy John Kerry was heading towards a confrontation with the leadership of the Catholic church in America yesterday after he defied calls to refrain from the sacraments and...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Absurd Inurbane Witless</dc:subject>
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      <title>Vatican: atheism is masculine</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/hodgepodge/vatican_atheism_is_mascu.php</link>
      <description>Vatican Pontifical Council says atheists are usually men, atheism is fading</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Roman Catholic Church&#39;s Pontifical Council for Culture says: &#8220;Unbelief is not increasing in the world. It is a phenomenon connected especially to the Western world. It is not connected to the Asian, Latin American or African world, and even...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Hodgepodge</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2004-03-14T15:18:05-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Bishop of Rome enjoys breakdancing</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/gullibility/blog/archives/cheap_laughs/bishop_of_rome_enjoys_bre.php</link>
      <description>Homophobic Paul John Paul II&apos;s mind grows dim</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Roman Catholic hilarity continues. Not up to his remarks about TV&#39;s treatment of gay people or the Cardinals words on vegan Antichrists and how some gays are gay but others are perverts. VATICAN CITY &#8212; In an unusual spectacle at...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Cheap Laughs</dc:subject>
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      <description>Conservative Catholics hate second Vatican council, anti-semites, Mel Gibson</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[ Back in the mid-60s the Roman Catholic Church made a few gestures toward modernity and relevance. Collectively the small reforms are known as Second Vatican Council. I remember reading of the dismay many older Catholics when rites and funerals...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The Catholic Church continues to get sillier and more evil. When you can&#39;t do anything else, lie.Steve Bradshaw, The Guardian: The Catholic Church is telling people in countries stricken by Aids not to use condoms because they have tiny holes...]]></content:encoded>
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      <description>&quot;Lexicon Recentis Latinitas.&quot; the Vatican&apos;s Latin phrase for UFO.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[(CNN) Fed up with hackers, a flood of spam and lousy connections, Italian Roman Catholics have launched a search for a patron saint of the Internet. Hopeless clickers urge Vatican to name protector...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Pope John Paul II is lobbying European governments to officially recognize the European Union's Christian roots, but diplomatic sources said secular opposition is likely to block his efforts.Pope wants EU to call itself Christian...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A well-formed Christian conscience does not permit one to vote for a political program or an individual law which contradicts the fundamental contents of faith and morals, according to the statement, titled Doctrinal Note on Some Questions Regarding the Participation...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Thousands of people have flocked to a small Romanian church after two men said they had seen the Virgin Mary crying in a painting.Thousands flock to church after Virgin Mary painting starts to cryRome - Vatican officials have slammed a...]]></content:encoded>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[The former head of the Roman Catholic Church in Zambia, Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo - who shocked Catholics by briefly marrying last year - has been given approval by the Vatican to return to his duties. &hellip; Archbishop Milingo married a...]]></content:encoded>
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